mpris-ctl is a minimalistic command-line tool for controlling audio players that expose an MPRIS D-Bus interface. It has a small dependency footprint and is aimed particularly at keyboard-based window managers.
Commands can be directed at named players or selected according to their playback state. Its information command can also produce customised output, making the utility useful for notifications, status bars, shell scripts, and keyboard shortcuts.
This is free and open source software.
Key Features
- Play, pause, toggle playback, stop, and change tracks.
- Target a specific MPRIS-compatible media player.
- Accept multiple player names when selecting command targets.
- Target active players whose playback status is Playing.
- Target inactive players whose playback status is Paused or Stopped.
- Report the current track name, artist, album, album artist, and track number.
- Display playback status, position, track length, bitrate, and comments.
- Report and manipulate volume, shuffle, and loop state.
- Use configurable format specifiers with the info command.
- Generate compact output suitable for desktop notifications and status bars.
- Works well with keyboard shortcuts in environments such as i3 and Sway.
- Depends only on the C D-Bus library at build and run time.
Website: github.com/mariusor/mpris-ctl
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Developer: Marius Orcsik
License: MIT License
mpris-ctl is written in C. Learn C with our recommended free books and free tutorials.
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